"Ken Januski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I downloaded msql-mysql-modules-1.2215.tar.gz today from CPAN. But when I >ran make I got these errors: >"LD_RUN_PATH -"/usr/local/....." cc -o >/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib dbdimp.o >mysql.o -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -/mysqlclient -lm -lz >-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.2-lgcc >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find - lz >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status" > >I think that the problem is related to linking but I'm not that familiar >with compiling and linking file so I can't be sure. But whether it is or not >the real question is how to get rid of the complaints about "cannot >find -lz". At least I THINK that is the real question. Any help would be >appreciated.
That'll be the zlib compression library. You need to install the zlib1g-dev package. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]